The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-07-07
Railroad Notes.

qulal purposes, ne thinks the term
"Three C's" too flippant to pc applied
to an enterprise of its magnitude and
and in view of the fine
coal and mineral region through
which it runs, he proposes to dab it
Magnetic Line" which appellation he
trusts will pc generally adopted as
short, euphonious and appropriate.
Col. Matson is entitled to the privi-
lege OF bestowing upon the road a
permanent diminutive name.
The road has just received two new
locomotives, weighing As ton each,
made to order by the Schenectady To-
works, and after the most
improved designs. They are named
Rutherford" and Cleveland" respect
lively. The next one will de named
york" 1t has also received Is new
freight cars of of 10000 pounds capa-
city each.
Previous to the reception of the
above equipment, the company re-
turned for taxation 2passenger coach
es, baggage car, 2 box cars, ~ fiat
cars, hand cars and 8 push cars.
The complete track from Blacks to
Rutherfordton is 43 3-5 miles of main
track and one mile of side track.
-Four miles are in South Carolina, q
in Cleveland and IS 3,5 in Rutherford.
The assessment in South Carolina is
$1,000 per mile.
A stretch OF eight miles of grading
this side of Camden is now complete,
and cross ties and track will soon be
laid and q construction train will be
run.
On Thursday morning, says a cor
respondent Of the Columbia Register,
Mrs. Ira B. Jones, of Lancaster, gave
birth to three girls. The mother
and babies are all doing well. Mr..
Jones is somewhat puzzled to know
what to do in this streak of good for
tune, but he believes he will name the
triplets Charleston" Cincinnati
and" Chicago" Or the Three CPS" and
he also thinks his country ought to
vote another subscription.
Mr.. 0. W, Bowman, assistant en-
gineer, passed through town yester-
day to join Engineer Walkers corps
on the seventh residency, having been
transferred from the second.
The engineer corps of the Georgia
and Carolina Midland survey, under
Engineer Whitner, arrived at Union
from Newberry last Friday. Col
Matson is of opinion that they will
cross Broad River into York county
this week.-YorkUille Enquirer.
We hear indirectly that President
Frank Coke says that the G. C. & G
Co. have abandoned the Marion route
and concluded to go by Morganton-
that he Was partial to this route, bu
the company determined to gothrougf
Burke. From the same source w
learn that Mr.. Joseph Bostie, Chair
man of the County Commissioners 0
Cleveland, writes that the road vii
defect at Shelby and go through
Burke, and that Cleveland will issu,
the $4,000 of bonds to the road. Or
the other hand we learn indirectl,
that Vice-President, j. T. Wilder, VIII,
attended the recent meeting OF the di
rectors at New York says that tn
road will be built by Marion and tina
the line from here to Rutherfordton i
under contract That the object @
the Co. is to build to Johnson City OF
the northwest and from here t
Charleston as soon as practicable, S
that while the road IS being construct
ed from here to johnson City, tn
most difficult part of the road t
build, freights, &C., can be carrie
over the G. G. c., and r. & d from tn
northwest to the sea coast. Thi
strikes us as plausible and we hop
that this is the calculation of the con
J pany. We have never believed ths
the G. c. & G. would defect at an
point or go by any other way tina
by Marion, and we hope that develoI
ments will be made in the near futul
! to demonstrate beyond a doubt thu
the G. G. & c. will soon be built
= this place--Marion Bugle.